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“Questing Beast†started in 2002 as the the soloproject of Dutch, Amsterdam-based musicologystudent Melle Kromhout; at home he experimented with his computer and everything his limited possibilities allowed: a variety of selfrecorded samples, drumsamples, his own voice and an electrical piano. Songs developed gradually in a trial and error-like process of slowly layering sounds and voices.
'Questing Beast' blends all kinds of influences together, resulting among others in popsongs, avant-gardistic soundscapes, dance influenced songs, harsh industrial and piano-ballads. The best description may be 'an unconventional singer/songwriter in a candyshop of sounds...'
During the first years four 'records' were compiled and handed out to family and friends under the name 'Mindtwister' ('a journey into the mindtwister' (2002), 'use your soul for music' (2003), 'pretty girls with an ugly mind' (2004) and 'songs for a person' (2004)).
When staying in Berlin for half a year in 2006, Melle took the best material of these albums, that never reached an audience beyond the personal sphere, and decided to update, upgrade, remix and in some cases re-record the songs up to full satisfaction. With the addition of newer works from the years 2005 and 2006, he renamed himself “Questing Beast†and compiled the album 'Hidden Mirror’: 15 songs that span from 2003 to 2007.
“Questing Beast†is personal music, the capturing of a moment in sound, it does not respect genre-borders or limitations. It is what it is, there is more to come, and for now, this is as good as it gets... At the moment “Questing Beast†is nothing more than these home-recordings, but in the future it may also be a live act. Plans for this are being developed, but still remain in a preliminary phase.
Melle Kromhout finished his bachelorstudy in musicology with a thesis about German Industrial-pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten. He now studies Cultural Analysis in Amsterdam. He used to be singer in rockbands 'Le group sensationel "Badboy" Americain' (2001-2003) and '(In Advance)' (2003-2007). Currently, he is keyboardplayer and backgroundsinger in 'Fata "el moustache" Morgana&rsquo
In April 2008, the Questing Beast song "Wake" was released as a part of the KRÆKA!™ Compilation Series, issue 9, track 6. Check www.digitalkranky.com for more details.
'Questing Beast' contact: [email protected]
"Hidden Mirror"-CD Artwork by Bramme: [email protected]
To order the 15 track demo-album 'Hidden Mirror,' please send an e-mail to [email protected]
